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aluminum appears flimsy, butcuved in cross section into theshape of a C, a Reverse-C, or aT, it becomes remarkably rigid.With the right padding materials,Sam realized, it wouldmake an exceptional splint.Dr. Scheinberg, 1970Having satisfied his curiosity, Sam nearly let the projectdrop. But his wife Cherrie wouldn’t let him. In what Samlater called “the luckiest ten minutes of nagging in my life,”she hounded him around the house until he agreed to bringthe product to the world.It took years of meticulous experimentation, but by 1985,Sam and Cherrie and their fledgling manufacturing firm,were selling the first SAM® SPLINTs. Today, the SAM®SPLINT is the most popular emergency splint in the world,favored not only by emergency crews, but also by armedservices, athletic trainers and outdoor adventurers. To quoteOutward Bound’s Wilderness First-Aid Handbook, “It is theonly splint worth carrying on your back.”The SAM ® SPLINT is a product that has come to reflectSAM Medical Product’s philosophy in all of its endeavors.If you’re going to make something, don’t just make it good:make it better than anything else currently available. Makeit so much better that, like the SAM® SPLINT it sets a new“gold standard” in its field.